ANTH 1002 3-23-11 - 3/23/11 Sociocultural Anthropology: For...

3/23/11 Sociocultural Anthropology: • For many of disorders the change in recognition and awareness of these disorders comes form cultural factors • You can trace increase in prevelance in melanoma to the 1920s when Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and other magazines advocate tan as beautiful o Also rise of availability of transportation • Autism Spectrum Disorder o Impairments ranging form mild to severe in the following domains:  1. Social interaction • Imparment of social skills • Making appropriate eye contact  2. Verbal and nonverbal communication • Many autistic people don’t speak at all • Some speak a lot but not what you want them to talk about  3. Repetitive behavior or interests • One aspect is playing with parts of objects • Or objects which are not meant to be used in that way • EX: one kid who likes to take apart ceiling fans o Just liked to take them apart not interested necessarily in how they work o o Makes it difficult to have a job, to be in settings you need to be in in order to lead a normal life  Like taking care of own hygine etc • A Few of the Many Myths o We know the incidence of autism  No we know the prevalence (prevelance is a ratio at the time)

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